President Hassan Rouhani delivered a speech for the United Nations General Assembly today as 1252 political prisoners –– individuals arrested for political consideration or for exercising basic rights to freedom…

33 Kurdish men have been sentenced to death by Iranian authorities, including possibly a juvenile offender. The international and Iranian community are standing in solidarity requesting new and fair trials.…

Washington D.C. (30 July 2012) The U.S. State Department has re-designated Iran as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act in its annual report this week. Since…

I am speaking on behalf of the Democracy Coalition Project in coordination with United for Iran. My name is Puyan Mahmudian. I was jailed in Iran in May 2007 for serving as an editor for a pro-democracy student publication. The government forged false documents to arrest me and other student activists. I spent three months in solitary confinement and endured torture by my interrogators. I was barred from graduate education despite being ranked 6th out of more than one thousand candidates in the national entrance...